This month, an Exchange server will go live in our organization. It
will be connected to Domino to allow us to deliver iPhone services to
our corporate users. We have a number of iPhones requested from our
user community and more are sure to come.
Somehow, I don&os;t believe this is they type of response to John Head&os;s "Call to Action" that was anticipated. Kevin also states that this will be opening the door for more use of Exchange in his company and some likely migrations from Notes mail for certain groups.
It was asked at Ed Brill&os;s blog if companies would seriously choose to move to Exchange just to support the iPhone - apparently the answer is yes. As I&os;m writing this, there are 367 signatures at the iPetition. This represents mobile users in the tens of thousands. Let us hope that more of these companies do not see more pressure to deliver push mail to iPhones.
I do believe that IBM is trying to get this all sorted with Apple - and much of it is out of IBM&os;s hands. I have tested and provided some feedback on Lotus iNotes Ultralite. I think it is a good interim solution for those who need access to Domino mail from an iPhone. But, I think we all agree that it does not provide the desired long-term solution we all want for push mail and pim sync.
Further, to reiterate what Ed said, none of us really know how the Exchange services are going to work on the iPhone. There has been past debate about whether Exchange Server with Windows Mobile devices actually provides "push" mail. So will the iPhone implementation of this be more of a constant pull than a push? (Not that end-users actually care - they just want instant access to mail...)
I do not want to keep this debate going, but with the knowledge now that there are companies considering Exchange implementations to do this, we should keep this in mind.
Re: What is in your plugin_customization.ini?
Thu, Sep 2nd 2010 10:42a Chris Whisonant divMitch Cohen has a href=http://www.curiousmitch.com/CuriousMitch/mitch2.nsf/d6plinks/MCON-88VNHEa great blog post/a in which he calls for IBM to be more transparent with the options that are available for configuration in the plugin_customization.ini. I completely agree with his post - we now have a a href=../../lotusnut/entry/stopnabhackingvery easy method to push out these properties/a to our user population, but now we just need to know what they are! And knowing is half the battle!/divdiv [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Now Thats Some Great Uptime!!
Thu, Aug 26th 2010 4:29p Chris Whisonant divWe have a server we host here at a href=http://www.gbs.com/GBS/a that has some pretty good uptime results. I would say that 14 months uptime is not too bad - even for quot;justquot; an inbound SMTP server for 700 users!br //divdiv /divdiva href=../../lotusnut/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/dominouptime.png target=_blankimg alt=image src=../../lotusnut/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/dominouptime.png style=display: block; margin: 0pt auto; text-align: center; position: relative; //abr /Care to [read] Keywords: server
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Lotus Connections Profiles DB Purging
Mon, Aug 23rd 2010 1:12p Chris Whisonant divWith Lotus Connections 2.5, the PEOPLEDB database has an EVENTLOG table that keeps track of each status update, photo update, colleague addition, tagging, wallpost creation, etc... The problem is that none of this is cleaned up over time. And I am unable to find this documented anwhere. The closest I can find is a post abouta href=http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ltscnnct/v2r0/topic/com.ibm.connections.25.help/t_admin_communities_config_event_log_cleanup.htmlsetting up a CRON job for [read] Keywords: connections
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Happy Yellow Day! Hope you enjoy the changes!
Wed, Aug 11th 2010 9:21a Chris Whisonant divFor a href=http://ntf.gbs.com/nathan/escape.nsf/d6plinks/NTFN-886KZTYellow Day 2010/a we have updated the UI here at BleedYellow. We hope you enjoy the new digs. If you have any input please let us know by commenting here or using the Contact email at the top of the page. (You may have to ctrl-f5 to do a full refresh if it does not look different than it has in the past...)br //divdiv /divdiv(Hat Tip: the a href=http://www.curiousmitch.com/CuriousMitch/mitch2.nsf/d6plinks/MCON-829LCMSHOW303 [read] Keywords: connections
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A few updates/fixes on BleedYellows Lotus Connections Implementation
Wed, Aug 4th 2010 1:29p Chris Whisonant divIm happy to let you know about a few updates and fixes weve added to the BleedYellow site./divdiv /divdivFirst, there were some issues with an older version of the header.html file we were using. This was causing some of the services (like Homepage) to render quot;iunknown user/iquot; for the logged in username. And many of the other services would not show the logged in account iat all/i. This has now been resolved. Note to self: always use the new files from the most recent version of the [read] Keywords: connections
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Why Gmail is Better Than Lotus Notes (Or Is It?)
Thu, Jul 15th 2010 1:51p Chris Whisonant Yesterday, Ed Brill posted an article about a document that Google is using as a Gmail vs. Notes reference guide. His blog post a href=http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/google-envisions-life-after-notes-in-a-reference-guidecan be found here/a.divbr //divdivWhile Ed and several people in comments mention that some of these are false for particular reasons, I would like to go through each of them briefly to see whether there is validity with the assertions Google is making. I believe y [read] Keywords: inotes
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Notes and Domino 8.5.1 FP3 Now Available
Fri, May 28th 2010 2:02p Chris Whisonant You can get the Notes fixes from a href=http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/identifyFixes?query.parent=ibm~Lotusamp;query.product=ibm~Lotus~Lotus%20Notesamp;query.release=8.5.1.2amp;query.platform=Allhere/a.divbr //divdivThe Domino fixes are available a href=http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/identifyFixes?query.parent=ibm~Lotusamp;query.product=ibm~Lotus~Lotus%20Dominoamp;query.release=8.5.1.2amp;query.platform=Allhere/a./divdivbr //divdivAnd here is a link to the a href [read] Keywords: domino
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Re: A Question About the Server-Based Archiving Bug With 8.5.1
Mon, May 24th 2010 10:41a Chris Whisonant pIn response to: a href=http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/lotusnut/entry/851archivingproblemA Question About the Server-Based Archiving Bug With 8.5.1/a/pRelated to the previous post I made on this topic, I have heard
from Lotus Support that the 8.5.1 FP2 version of this hotfix
conflicts with the a
href=http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg214261648.5.1
FP2 IF1/a that corrects several issues for DAOS. As I mentioned,
though, this hotfix should be included in 8.5.1 FP3 (probably
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A Question About the Server-Based Archiving Bug With 8.5.1
Fri, May 21st 2010 11:58a Chris Whisonant IBM a href=http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21430489Technote 1430489/a (Attachments in e-mail messages can be deleted when archived) reads somewhat confusing:divbr //divblockquote class=webkit-indent-blockquote style=margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;diviWhen users archive e-mail messages to a 8.5.1 or 8.5.1 FP1 or 8.5.2 FP2 /i(sic - should be 8.5.1 FP2 per quot;software versionquot; field of the Technote)i Lotus Domino server (server-based archiving), any archived [read] Keywords: domino
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